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...only surprise in the protest is that professionals in the West took so long to acknowledge the documented evidence of malpractice in the Soviet Union. The first extensive revelations were made in 1963 by Author Valery Tarsis, whose book Ward Seven described his internment in a Moscow psychiatric hospital. More recently, Geneticist Zhores Medvedev and his twin brother. Historian Roy Medvedev, published A Question of Madness (TIME, Sept. 27), which tells of their struggle to win Zhores' release from a mental hospital after he published an attack on the theories of Stalin's favorite scientist, Geneticist T.D. Lysenko...
Most of the U.S. officials and private communications experts who visited Peking this month were interested in scheduling and press coverage for President Nixon's trip to China. Colonel Chester Ward, however, inspected Peking Hospital, checking out such matters as anesthesiology equipment and the supply of A-positive fresh blood, the President's type. On returning to Washington, Dr. Ward reported to his boss, White House Physician Walter Tkach, and gave the hospital good marks. The exercise was not academic; if Richard Nixon should need hospital care in China, he will get it in Peking Hospital...
...that the President is in excellent health. But the doctor is taking no chances. Tkach is updating Nixon's inoculation record for yellow fever, plague, cholera, typhoid, typhus, tetanus and smallpox, though China has brought such infectious diseases well under control. Bottled water will be taken along, though Ward's tests showed that the local supply will not trouble American digestive systems...
...blood blended into mulatto culture, which continued to prey on the tribal Indian. Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries in the Mato Grosso, private armies of bandeirantes pillaged for gold, diamonds and slaves. Thousands of Indians who were not killed by gun died because they lacked the antibodies to ward off their invaders' most common illnesses. The Indians retaliated sporadically, piercing their persecutors with long arrows, eating their flesh and occasionally shrinking their heads (which commanded a high price as curios in the civilized world...
...Federal District Court also quashed yesterday subpoenas calling for grand jury testimony by Noam Chomsky, Ward Professor of Linguistics at MIT: Richard Falk, Milbank Professor of International Law at Princeton; and Ralph Stavins, a member of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington. The ruling was made on the grounds that a government affidavit denying wiretapping, filed last month, is insufficient...